Discovery certificate for object 2019ghx
TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 36188 [ 2019TNSTR.891....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2019-05-31 20:39:24
Sender: ZTF (ZTF_AMPEL_COMPLETE)
Reporting Group: ZTF     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

J. Nordin, V. Brinnel, M. Giomi, J. van Santen (HU Berlin), A. Gal-Yam, O. Yaron, S. Schulze (Weizmann) on behalf of ZTF report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2019ghx
Discoverer internal name: ZTF18abokkfh
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 17:51:13.406 (267.8058584) DEC = +76:14:38.29 (76.2439699)
Discovery date: 2019-05-14 08:19:50.000 (JD=2458617.8471065)


Remarks: Significant noise in Gaia DR2 - variable star cannot be excluded. See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2019-05-14 08:19:50.000
Flux: 18.52 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2019-05-03 11:16:42
Limiting flux: 20.7966 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin


Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2019ghx